Global warming has brought Argentina’s corn farmers a dangerous new enemy: a yellow insect just four millimeters (0.16 inch) long that thrives in hotter temperatures and is threatening harvests of the ...

A tiny insect is wreaking havoc on Europe’s sugar beet industry, not by biting plants, but by spreading bacteria that rob crops of their value. Once a specialist feeder, the reed leafhopper has ...

CORDOBA PROVINCE, Argentina (Reuters) - Global warming has brought Argentina's corn farmers a dangerous new enemy: a yellow insect just four millimeters (0.16 inch) long that thrives in hotter ...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine scientific institute has cracked the genome of the leafhopper, the insect which carries the bacteria responsible for wiping out vast swathes of the South American ...

Scientists discover seven strange frog-faced insects in Uganda, a surprising hidden gem of the unique African jungle.

A new invasive insect, the two-spotted leafhopper, has been detected in South Carolina for the first time. The small, pale green insect damages crops like cotton and okra by chewing on the underside ...

The corn leafhopper, an invasive insect native to Mexico that has spread extensively and caused economic losses across the Americas, was identified in Minnesota for the first time this fall, according ...

The insect was found in one corn field in Waseca County, where adults of the corn leafhopper were captured on yellow sticky traps placed on corn plants at the R5-R6 stage. The insect was found in one ...

Andrew Hicks from the Museum of Natural History at the University of Colorado and his team discovered a previously unknown leafhopper species in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, located just east of the ...

It was 3 AM in the morning. A leafhopper jumped onto the next blade of grass, looking for one that isn't shrivelled. Grass had been in abundance then. It's been years, no, centuries, actually. Hubris ...